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First of all, some minor venting and warnings before I get to the happy cute stuff:

Irony of the Day: So, two weeks ago I spent 2.5 hours on the phone with Expedia trying to get a bill refunded. At the end of that call, they assured me it was all fixed. So now, on our credit card bill, we discover $1000 worth of bills from Expedia, not refunded, and online, there's no evidence that they canceled the relevant flight. However, I can't call them today to complain about this, because we have run over our cellphone minutes, running up a big charge...because of the 2.5 hours I spent talking to Expedia. Also, apparently I can't change my cellphone plan to a more expensive one without contracting for 2 years, which i don't want to do. And the athletic club back in Evanston is still charging me despite numerous phone conversations - not that I can yell at them today - because of aforementioned issue.

OK. Banishing annoyance by invoking cute stuff:

Mac is  Less Profound Than He Thinks: So, Mac clearly basked in the approval from his earlier philosophical commentary that "Sometimes you have to wait for the next bus" and has been using the phrase frequently. Yesterday, we were driving up a highway (280) with some cows on it, which got him very excited. After a while, we left the herd behind.
"Where are the cows, Mommy?"
"There aren't any cows over there anymore, Mac, sorry."
"Oh. Sometimes you have to wait for the next cow."

Somehow this fails to rise to the same level. :)

Mac is A Good Scientist: At school recently, they made dinosaur fossils by putting their chosen prints into white plastery playdough and baking it. Most of the other kids had little paw prints and things. Mac announced to us, showing off his three-clawed narrow print, "I made a bird fossil! A bird dinosaur!" CP, who's been emphasizing that birds come from dinosaurs since Mac could crawl, was extremely proud of his son's knowledge of evolution.

Mac is Creative: Mac grabbed Eowyn's tennis ball yesterday and put it on top of an empty paper towel tube we had given her as a toy. "Look, Mommy and Daddy, ice cream!" Everyone was amused except for Eowyn, who rather wanted her ball/ice cream back.

He dragged Jenny, the polar bear I was given when three days old, who I've passed onto Mac, into our bed this morning. "Mommy, we need to tuck Jenny in!" Amusingly, tucking stuffed animals in apparently requires covering their mouth completely. We'll have to be careful with the Manticore here.
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posted by [identity profile] bloodstones.livejournal.com at 07:36pm on 22/02/2009
Could you use skype to make the phone calls? I recently used it for the first time to call australia and it was very cheap. I would imagine that in-country phone calls would be similarly cheap.
 
posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 08:40pm on 22/02/2009
We do use Skype frequently, but we have a relatively weak internet connection (it's free Google WiFi cuz we live in Googletown) so it doesn't work for all things, and is limited to the bedroom. Also, today CP is using it to run a game.
 
posted by [identity profile] bloodstones.livejournal.com at 12:49am on 23/02/2009
That makes sense. I hope you get it all sorted out soon and with a minimum of aggravation.
 
posted by [identity profile] ladybird97.livejournal.com at 07:39pm on 22/02/2009
HUGS. Oh, that sucks sucks sucks :( I hate bureaucracy!

The Mac-cute rocks, though. hee. Sometimes you have to wait for the next cow :)
 
posted by [identity profile] meepodeekin.livejournal.com at 08:46pm on 22/02/2009
Aren't calls free for you on Sunday? Not that they are necessarily open now, but... Major suckage, in any case.

Also, I think the Mac cow comment was hilarious, if not necessarily profound.
 
posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 09:10pm on 22/02/2009
Nope, not on our plan.
 
posted by [identity profile] redhound.livejournal.com at 10:08pm on 22/02/2009
I'm impressed that Mac has solved the buy cow/get milk for free problem at such a young age.
 
posted by [identity profile] jendaviswilson.livejournal.com at 12:44am on 23/02/2009
Are you out of minutes for the whole month? I can lend you my phone for an evening if that helps--my work pays it.
 
posted by [identity profile] orichalcum.livejournal.com at 03:34am on 23/02/2009
No, just until tomorrow at midnight. We can manage for a day w/o making unnecessary calls, but thanks.

Mostly, it's just frustrating, because we had been staying well under our limit, and then the last two months have just been full of things like the stupid Expedia call.
 
posted by [identity profile] inevitablymango.livejournal.com at 01:39pm on 23/02/2009
I don't know what cell phone plan you have, but I had the same thing happen in terms of going over minutes, which I NEVER do... I called ATT and asked if they might be able to retroactively switch me to a new plan without changing my contract, just for two months. They said they could only do it for the whole remainder of my contract. I asked if there was any other way. Eventually the guy just gave me about half the amount I'd been over as a refund, without changing my plan at all. Maybe if you call back, you might get a nicer person? (Obviously, might not be worth the time to deal with it but just a thought.)

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